loose smut
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1. a smut fungus of the genus Ustilago causing a smut disease of grains in which the entire head is transformed into a dusty mass of spores (noun.plant)
hypernym | : | smut, smut fungus, |
definition | : | any fungus of the order Ustilaginales (noun.plant) |
member meronym | : | genus ustilago, ustilago, |
definition | : | type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts (noun.plant) |
2. disease of grains; the entire head is a dusty mass of spores (noun.state)
hypernym | : | smut, |
definition | : | destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores (noun.state) |
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